{"id":3802,"date":"2008-02-05T23:39:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T03:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/05\/3802"},"modified":"2008-02-05T23:39:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T03:39:45","slug":"blue-eyed-humans-come-from-a-single-common-mutant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2008\/02\/blue-eyed-humans-come-from-a-single-common-mutant\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-eyed humans come from a single, common mutant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news120933651.html\" rel=\"external\">Pretty much.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>This part makes me happy to be a unique creature of this earth:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;The mutation of brown eyes to blue represents neither a positive nor a negative mutation. It is one of several mutations such as hair colour, baldness, freckles and beauty spots, which neither increases nor reduces a human&#8217;s chance of survival. As Professor Eiberg says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it simply shows that nature is constantly shuffling the human genome, creating a genetic cocktail of human chromosomes and trying out different changes as it does so.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/daemienwrath.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"external\">The Existence<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty much. New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today&#8230; This part makes me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre-weird","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}